Taiwan said Thursday, December 12, that it had counted 16 Chinese warships on the third day of a major military deployment by Beijing around the island. These boats, along with 34 Chinese aircraft, were spotted near Taiwan in the 24 hours through 6 a.m. Thursday (2200 GMT Wednesday), according to the Taiwan Defense Ministry’s daily tally.
China is making its largest military deployment in years from Japan’s southern islands to the South China Sea, Taipei said this week, calling Beijing a “troublemaker”. Some 90 Chinese warships and coast guards are taking part in the drills, which include simulated attacks on ships and drills to block maritime routes, a senior Taiwanese security official said on Wednesday. covered by anonymity.
China considers Taiwan as a province that it has not yet managed to unify with the rest of its territory since the end of the Chinese civil war in 1949, and does not rule out the use of force to achieve this.
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